Last night New York City mayor Bill De Blasio warned New Yorkers of, “one of the largest snow storms in the recorded history of this city.” The mayor stressed safety, asked that no one drive except in emergencies, and said that public transportation would be shut down. With the television weathermen telling us that we […]

When Senator Dianne Feinstein took to the senate floor last year and accused the Central Intelligence Agency of spying on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), the very committee charged with oversight of the CIA, it marked the beginning of a scandal that could have brought down the CIA like nothing the American public […]

I just finished reading Nicholas Irving’s memoir “The Reaper,” and found it to be a great read. Nick and I served in the same sniper section, but at different times. I got to Ranger Battalion in 2003, so I was a sniper by the time Nick finished RIP in 2005. I didn’t even know about […]

“Havrem,” whose real name is Alex, presents himself as an ideological warrior who ran away from home at the age of 16 to join the PKK and fight for Kurdish freedom. He talks about scaling the treacherous mountains of Turkey as a PKK fighter and of ruthless battles fought against ISIS in Northern Syria, but […]

Having torn through this book in two days, I think even the most jaded readers of books about Special Operations and snipers will find this book a great read and tear through it in two days.

The Daily Mail claims that two British volunteers are in Syria to make money, not fight for the YPG. SOFREP has been in direct contact with the British veterans and many other foreign fighters in North Syria to get the facts.

The point is that when conducting FID, your job is not to create a mirror image of American forces, but rather to give your host-nation counterparts some basic skills to help them rise above their opposition and help effect tactical victories on the battlefield.

At the dawn of 2015, the world continues its march into gradual unplanned decentralization and the chaos which accompanies it.  While Western idealists have, and continue to, see liberal democracy as the final form of government the more apt parallel of current global trends has more in common with the warring city states of medieval […]

One way to deal with a vexing legal and political issue at Gitmo…

Happy New Year from SOFREP!  Hopefully, 2015 will be a whole lot friendlier than 2014 was!

A Ranger goes to college…but should you go to college? The question is highly dependent on your individual situation.  I don’t recommend it for all veterans but I would recommend that all of us at least consider it, especially considering that you can pretty much go to school for free using the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill […]

He got out his flashlight. I prepared for the worst. He switched on the light and shined it into the car. The beam found Mikkel, but the guard seemed uninterested in him, instead moving the beam back to me and pointing it directly into my face.